Re: [IRCA] More IBOC

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As we all have said before, if night IBOC gets widespread, we can say
> goodbye to long range reception. It will be noise from end to end.

Yes.  It will require such a signal strength to even get a listenable signal
that I suspect RF exposure limits might come into play.  Silly..

> Our only options will be to move. Few of us will do that. I don't expect
us
> to move to Kauai of Northern Alaska. hi. But there is always longwave,
> shortwave, TV DX.

TV has DTV.  FM has IBOC.  The folks on the FM list are equally hampered by
IBOC.  At my house, I can no longer hear one of my clients on 92.7 because
of an IBOC signal on 93.3 a few miles away.  Toast..  Longwave is kinda fun,
but the programming is lacking.  "All code, all the time"  Just picture the
jingle package..

I think one of our list folks is wandering around Easter Island for a couple
of weeks.  I bet IBOC is not a factor there.

> But this will totally kill the AM band. More people
> will be listening to radio on the internet.

See my comments to Colin on this..

> IBOC is a total waste of
> spectrum and it useless as it has such poor coverage. After night IBOC
> gets implimented, why even continue with analog? The band will be full
> of noise that in most cases the analog signal will not have a prayer to
> make it out 50 miles. So if IBOC does stick, within a few years, most
> everything left on AM with be IBOC only I would presume. At least it
> looks like it would be pointing that way. But time will tell.

I think what you will see is news/traffic coming by WiFi to a small text
screen on an iPod or Blackberry by an RSS feed.  Music and entertainment
will be all .mp3 on an iPod or another RSS.  The powers that be are
effectively killing off all broadcast sources either by overcharging them
out of existence, or interfering them off the dial.  I have no idea why the
whole music and entertainment industry is eating itself.  It's silly.

I am very concerned about the whole broadcast industry.  In many ways it
seems to be imploding.  Add to this the potential for a severe economic
crash fueled by the current real estate issues, and radio (and my work)
could be in deep doo-doo.

That WalMart greeter job is looking better by the day.  Then again, I am
making good money buying and selling virtual real estate in Second Life.
http://secondlife.com

I think that's enough IBOC chatter for me for this month.  I'm already over
my self-imposed limit.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI

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